Evolution of Consortium Clause Samples

Evolution of Consortium. The Consortium Agreement will specify the rules for partners leaving and joining the consortium. Partners may voluntarily leave the consortium, provided that specific procedures are followed and that their responsibilities and possibly their liabilities have been reassigned. Partners may also be asked to leave the consortium in case of defaulting on their obligations. The mechanism to accomplish this will also be defined in the Consortium Agreement, and it is in order to manage these difficult questions, that in eu-DOMAIN it has been decided to not accept any participant who does not sign the Consortium Agreement before the start of the project. Under the Sixth Framework Programme, the participants in a project have been granted increased autonomy to manage the project and regulate amongst themselves a number of issues, which previously were regulated by the EU Contract. It is crucial that these be clearly defined beforehand. The procedures for identifying and accepting new participants in the project will similarly be defined in the Consortium Agreement.